In application areas like personal information agents user modelstypically maintain sophisticated representations of personal interest profiles. Theserepresentations can be utiliz...
: As the economic importance of operation room (OR) management is increasing, the aim of this paper is to analyse the information need for business process reengineering (BPR) in O...
This paper describes an empirical study of the "Information Synthesis" task, defined as the process of (given a complex information need) extracting, organizing and inte...
In this paper, we have considered a real world information synthesis task, generation of a fixed length multi document summary which satisfies a specific information need. This...
Researchers spent a large amount of their time searching through an ever increasing number of scientific articles. Although users of scientific search engines prefer the ranking o...
The Web has become an important information repository; often it is the first source a person turns to with an information need. One common way to search the Web is with a search ...
Web search is generally motivated by an information need. Since asking well-formulated questions is the fastest and the most natural way to obtain information for human beings, al...
Searchers can have problems devising queries that accurately express their, often dynamic, information needs. In this paper we describe an adaptive approach that uses unobtrusive ...
Due to both the size and growth of the internet, new tools are needed to assist with the finding and extraction of very specific resources relevant to a user's task. Previous...
Users’ information needs are largely driven by the context in which they make their decisions. This context is dynamic. It includes the users’ characteristics, their current do...